It has become obvious to me that ultra-right corporate executives, billionaires, political power players, Evangelical religious leaders who have been financially backing and supporting the GOP MAGA ex-president’s bid to become the 47th US president want an autocracy a la Project 2025, while the coalition of non-Trump voters know that they’re in a battle to preserve US democracy, the US Constitution, the “rule of law,” the peaceful transfer of power, etc.

The GOP MAGA corporate executives, transactional thinking billionaires who prefer the USA being governed as an autocracy want less taxes and an end to pesky governmental business regulations intended to protect their employees and the public from harm. They’ll continue to deny climate change science while pushing for greater fossil fuel usage; discount the dangers of smoke inhalation from vaping, block any laws restricting gun usage. while maintaining the status quo regarding pricing practices by pharmaceutical, banking, food, insurance industries as Evangelicals reach their objective of a nationalized anti-abortion religion.

Meanwhile, to motivate the ex-presidents base to march in lock step to the voting booths, they’ll stoke the anger and fear in his cult-like followers. They’ll resort in some instances to “Mein Kampf” rhetoric about how the other (the immigrant vermin and the political rivals as the enemies from within) have been taking over their culture, lowering their standard of life, allowing secularism to challenge their key faith-based beliefs, poisoning the blood of the nation etc.

Take time to read the entire lengthy (below) exposé by Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in the October 26, 2024 New York Times report which details how the former president has been making overt promises to big oil, tobacco. vaping, crypto, technology and other industry leaders, with a level of explicitness rarely seen in modern presidential politics. Now, it looks like we can add the billionaire media outlet owners who’re acting in favor of autocracy versus our US democracy. They’re Elon Musk of Twitter (X), Patrick Soon-Shiong of the LA Times and Jeff Bezos of the Washington Post and Jeffrey Yass with major investments in Tik Tok.

According to the October 27, 2024 Guardian report by Michael Sainato via Politomix, “Bezos faces criticism after executives met with Trump on day of Post’s non-endorsement:

Excerpt:

“The multi-billionaire owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, continued facing criticism throughout this past weekend because executives from his aerospace company, Blue Origin met with Donald Trump on the same day the newspaper prevented its editorial team from publishing an endorsement of his opponent in the US presidential election.”

See: Mr. Bezos Went to Washington. But He Never Arrived. – NY Times…

Here are excerpts from the New York Times report, “”How Donald Trump Is Making Big Promises to Big Business:”

Excerpts:

“On a Friday in late September, Donald J. Trump took time off the campaign trail for a closed-door meeting at Mar-a-Lago with officials representing the vaping industry.”

“The vaping emissaries talked about loosening regulations and told the former president he had “saved” the industry in the past. The group — including Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, and another 2016 campaign aide, Michael Rubino — showed him mock-ups of mailers they were sending out through Election Day. Mr. Trump asked for input on what he could say on social media about a complicated regulatory issue.”

“Within hours, Mr. Trump had posted about his allegiances to the embattled e-cigarette sector. “I saved Flavored Vaping in 2019,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. “I’ll save Vaping again!”

“The head of the Vapor Technology Association, Tony Abboud, who was also in the meeting, quickly declared he was “pleased” that Mr. Trump was “continuing to fight for vapers.” The vaping industry hasn’t been a significant contributor in the presidential race, but the Vapor Technology Association has been quietly sending versions of those mailers to voters in battleground states warning that Democrats want “to steal vapes from freedom-loving Americans.”

“As Mr. Trump seeks a return to the White House, he has come a long way from his 2016 campaign pitch that he was so rich he was incorruptible. Back then, he mocked the G.O.P.’s donor-lobbyist class and boasted in his announcement speech, “I don’t need anybody’s money.” Today, Mr. Trump is looking everywhere for cash: asking small donors online, pressing fellow billionaires over private meals in Trump Tower and lobbying for donations from industries regulated by the government.”

“As he does so, he is sometimes making overt promises about what he’ll do once he’s in office, a level of explicitness toward individual industries and a handful of billionaires that has rarely been seen in modern presidential politics.

“In some cases, Mr. Trump has sought to shake loose cash from industries like oil and energy that have long aligned with his deregulation agenda. In others, Mr. Trump has flipped his positions, such as on crypto.”

“Not long ago, he was warning that cryptocurrencies seemed “like a scam” that could facilitate crimes, and he supported stiff regulation. Now, he’s aggressively courting the industry, promising to make America “the crypto capital of the planet” and to fire its most hated regulator on Day 1.”

“Millions of dollars in crypto-industry contributions have followed.”

“Former President Trump has a ‘For Sale’ sign around his neck and appears to be willing to sell basically any policy in exchange for campaign contributions,” said Dennis Kelleher, president of Better Markets, a nonprofit that seeks stronger regulations.”

“But the matter of raising money became especially urgent once he was running against Vice President Kamala Harris, who raised twice as much as him over the summer.”

“President Trump only takes his cues on policy from one group of people: the American people,” Ms. Leavitt said. She said he was supported by “people who share his vision of American energy dominance” as well as “crypto innovators and others in the technology sector” who are “under attack.”

“In 2016, Mr. Trump vowed to “drain the swamp,” though he was not initially enamored with the phrase. “A little hokey,” he called it. But crowds roared, and he kept repeating it.”

“As president, he did no such thing. Far from it: He hired top executives from Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs and from the fossil fuel and pharmaceutical industries. He ended the practice of making public White House visitor logs. His family operated a for-profit hotel blocks from the White House that became a den of lobbying activity and a must-stay place for those looking to curry favor. People who paid pricey membership dues to join his private club at Mar-a-Lago had easy access to Mr. Trump as he dined on the patio, often taking the opportunity to pitch their pet interests.”

“Trump was the first transactional president,” said Scott Reed, a longtime Republican consultant and former top political strategist for the US Chamber of Commerce. “He’s now taken it to a new level.”